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No. 750,002. PATENTED JAN. 19,1904.

J. MoGARTHY'.

GASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED 11,112.25. 1903.

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g \EQ Egg 73 f I WITNESSES: 'INVEJVTOR Patented January 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MOCARTHY, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

CASKET-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 750,002, dated January 19, 1904.

Application filed March 25 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN MoOAR'rHY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Casket-Handles, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of handles which are applied to the sides of burial-caskets for the purpose of furnishing convenient means for carrying said caskets. Such handles are usually pivoted to escutcheons attached to the casket to allow said handles to drop into a suspended position and by means of stops secured to the'escutcheons and handle-arms the upward swinging movement of the handles is limited to sustain them in a raised position convenient for the persons car rying the casket.

The object of my present invention is to provide simple, inexpensive, and effective means for reinforcing the connection of the handle to the casket; and to that end the inventionconsists in the improved construction and combination of the connecting parts of the handlearms to the escutoheon, as hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the casket-handle in its normal posiornamental shapes.

6 denotes the handle-bar or handle proper, which is carried on the free ends of the han- Serial. No. 149,480. (No model.)

dle-arms c 0, which are pivotally connected to the escutcheon.

To reinforce the connection of the handlearm to the escutoheon, as hereinbefore stated, I rigidly attach to the back of the escutcheon the ears cZ cl, formed of steel or infrangible metal and projecting outward from the face of the escutoheon, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. To the handle-arm c I rigidly secure the relief-bar e, composed of steel and extending the entire length of said handlearm. One end of said relief-bar is formed with an eye e, which embraces the handle-bar b, so as to obtain a secure hold thereon. The opposite end of said relief-bar is inserted between the ears d-d and pivoted thereto, as shown at f in Fig. 3.

To limit the upward swinging of the handlearm and securely sustain it in a convenient position for carrying the casket, I provide the pivoted end of the relief-bar with-laterallyprojecting stops it it, which are disposed to engage the tops of the ears beyond the pivot f when the handle-arm is raised, as aforesaid.

The stops it may consist of a steel pin passing horizontally through the relief-bar and engaging the tops of the ears, as shown in Figs.

- 5 and 7, or said stops may be formed by bifurcating or slitting longitudinally the end of the relief-bar and bending the two tongues thus formed laterally in opposite directions,

so as to cause them to engage the tops of the cars cl d, as represented in Figs. 4 and 6 of the I rigidly attached to the escutcheon the reliefbar inserted between said ears and pivoted thereto, and stops projecting from opposite sides of the relief-bar and engaging the tops 5 of the cars as set forth.

2. The combination with the escutcheon and handle-arm, of infrangible metal ears formed separate and projecting from the escutcheon, a relief-bar secured to the handle-arm and having its pivoted end bifurcated and the 10 prongs thereof deflected laterally in opposite directions to engage the tops of the aforesaid ears as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN BHJOARTHY.

Witnesses:

J. J. LAASS, LUCY WHITE. 

